Ritual Abuse

What is Ritual Abuse?
Ritual abuse is commonly repetitive abuse, which can be multi-generational and associated with ritual beliefs and practices (Lynette Danylchuk, Ph.D.).

Ritual abuse is a brutal form of abuse of children, adolescents, and adults, consisting of physical, sexual, psychological and spiritual abuse, and the use of rituals, though not necessarily satanic. Many survivors state, however, that they were abused as part of a satanic worship for the purpose of indoctrinating them into those beliefs and practices. It is usually done over an extended period of time. The physical abuse is severe, sometimes including torture and killing. The sexual abuse is often painful, sadistic, and humiliating, intended as a means of gaining control over the victim. The psychological abuse is devastating and involves the use of rites, which may include mind-control techniques, mind-altering drugs, and intimidation which conveys to the victim a profound terror of the cult members. The spiritual abuse can destroy the concept of a loving God, produce estrangement from or an aversion to God, and induce feelings of worthlessness and hatred of oneself and others in power. During and after the abuse, most victims live in a constant state of terror, mental confusion, and dissociation.

Who Are the Ritual Abuse-Torturers?
by Jeanne Sarson, MEd BScN RN and Linda MacDonald, MEd BN RN
www.ritualabusetorture.org

Ritual abuse-torturers have many roles. Besides being torturers, enslavers, traffickers, and abusers, they are parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, foster parents, or guardians on whom the chosen infant, child, or youth victim is dependent. Encompassing their victimized children in a social environment of like-minded friends who also inflict harm, as well as provide "professional" services by acting as the victimized infant, child, or youth’s doctor, nurse, social worker, teacher, counselor, or psychologist, or by performing "religious" counsel in the role of minister, priest, or nun.

And when the victimized child or youth looks out into their community, they might recognize others who belong to the ritual abuse-torture family/group—lawyers, judges, mechanics, engineers, politicians, fishermen, storekeepers, military personnel, scientists, or police, for example. When "outsider" adults fail to notice or understand their plight, or do not listen to them when they try to tell, the victimized child or youth perceives no one cares, and obviously feels and believes they are surrounded—captives, enslaved by and in the ritual abuse-torture family/group.

Women or men, rich or poor, professionally educated or not, mother or father, they have in common needs and desires for experiencing the pleasures derived from the infliction of acts of pedophilic torture that engulf and enslave their victims. This is the glue that binds them together in their like-mindedness.